In addition to Natan Sharansky's quote and reference to Abraham Lincoln's "Mystic Cords of Memory," the following have provided civilizations with important sayings that in their reasonablenesses influence much thought, infusing it with meaning. When applied and interpreted metaphorically, they even serve as tropes. They also have influenced this work: The Pretty True Texas Series, and even before knowing of their existences, all that I've done over the past four decades in creating ETM TRT SHOM.

Albert Einstein

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Sigmund Freud | Brought to my attention from, and thanks to, Eric Kandell's The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present...; 2012; Chapter Five.

"We cannot do without men with the courage to think new things before they can prove them."

Stephen Hicks | from "Nietzsche and the Nazis;" Paraphrasing my understanding of that author's (Hicks) message:

Us commoners will have to uncommonly learn the elements pertaining to and comprising the epistemology of trouble: the meaning and influence of philosophers' ideas that drive humankind, when it is mostly heading for destruction, and if we, otherwise, would like to head it off.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Once I used to hope that experience of life could be handed on from nation to nation, and from one person to another, but now I am beginning to have doubts of this."

"Had I another five hundred years, I could not have created a more perfect public and organizational management psychopathology than Evidenced-Base's Nosotropically-biased, epistemologically-bigoted, and mass-clinical-duping application to individual and systemic — particularly to include combat-caused — psychological trauma."